{"id":28993,"date":"2012-06-20T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/20\/rcmclachlan-homoerotics-bankuei\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T15:22:46","slug":"rcmclachlan-homoerotics-bankuei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/20\/rcmclachlan-homoerotics-bankuei\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-28993 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/20\/rcmclachlan-homoerotics-bankuei\/attachment\/28994\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5l46vRE7n1rn5bvko1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5l46vRE7n1rn5bvko1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tumblr_m5l46vRE7n1rn5bvko1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/rcmclachlan.tumblr.com\/post\/25362769622\/homoerotics-bankuei-theworldofchinese-the\">rcmclachlan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/homoerotics.tumblr.com\/post\/25243620621\/bankuei-theworldofchinese-the-greatest-pirate\">homoerotics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bankuei.tumblr.com\/post\/25076413977\/theworldofchinese-the-greatest-pirate-who-ever\">bankuei<\/a> | <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theworldofchinese.tumblr.com\/post\/25063802799\/the-greatest-pirate-who-ever-lived-by-joe-doran\">theworldofchinese<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworldofchinese.com\/2012\/06\/the-greatest-pirate-who-ever-lived\/\" title=\"The Greatest Pirate Who Ever Lived\">The Greatest Pirate Who Ever Lived<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>BY:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworldofchinese.com\/author\/joedoran\/\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Posts by Joe Doran \uff08\u675c\u4e54\uff09\">JOE DORAN \uff08\u675c\u4e54\uff09<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 1801, a pirate named Zheng Yi was busy raiding Canton. Aside from the prerequisite plundering and rum-drinking, he had given his men one specific order: to break into a local brothel and bring him the prostitute Zheng Yi Sao (\u90d1\u4e00\u5ac2), or \u201cZheng Yi\u2019s wife\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One might expect a sinister fate to have awaited\u00a0Zheng Yi Sao upon her deliverance to the pirate captain (rape, swiftly followed by murder, being the most obvious). In actuality, Zheng Yi\u2019s intentions were considerably more gentlemanly.<\/p>\n<p>He intended to marry her. And recognizing that her current future prospects were rather limited,\u00a0Zheng Yi Sao\u00a0accepted.<\/p>\n<p>But Zheng Yi Sao\u00a0didn\u2019t intend on spending the rest of her days as some plunder-hungry pirate\u2019s eye candy. She wanted to become a pirate as well, and she did \u2013 one of the greatest pirates to have ever lived.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworldofchinese.com\/2012\/06\/the-greatest-pirate-who-ever-lived\/\" title=\"The Greatest Pirate Who Ever Lived\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That first part doesn\u2019t do justice, here read this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Right from the get-go,\u00a0Zheng Yi Sao\u00a0displayed a staggering degree of cunning. She happily accepted Zheng Yi\u2019s proposal, but only on the condition that he share his wealth and power with her, equally. Then, while her new husband went about his pirate duties \u2013 further plunder and rum-drinking, presumably \u2013 she focused on the business side of things. <strong>The result was that in six years, she had engineered an alliance between Zheng Yi and his former pirate rivals, amassed a force of some 1500 ships (called the Red Flag Fleet) and created a swashbuckling empire that extended all the way from Korea to Malaysia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zheng Yi certainly knew how to pick \u2018em.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Zheng Yi was killed in 1807 after a misunderstanding with a typhoon. Unfortunate for him, but extremely fortunate for Zheng Yi Sao. Refusing to step aside like a good, diligent widow, Zheng Yi Sao\u00a0took charge of the Red Flag Fleet, convinced her late husband\u2019s First Mate to support her and swiftly set about making herself the most respected and\/or feared individual in all the East.<\/p>\n<p>If films\/books\/video games have taught us anything, it\u2019s that pirates were a rowdy bunch at the best of times, and their attitudes towards women were\u2026less than progressive. Zheng Yi Sao, of course, was having none of that and quickly established a new pirate code to keep her peg-legged men in line. Anyone who looted a town that had already paid tribute had their head cut off and was dumped in the ocean. Anyone caught, or even <em>suspected,<\/em> of stealing from the treasury had their head cut off and was dumped in the ocean. Anyone who raped a female prisoner had their head cut off and was dumped in the ocean (there\u2019s a pattern there somewhere).<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Zheng Yi Sao\u00a0was not messing around. Not all her laws were quite so decapitation-happy, though. Ugly female prisoners were to be set free, and when a crewmember purchased one of the prettier captives, he had no choice but to marry her.<\/p>\n<p>But if he was unfaithful\u2026head cut off, dumped in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>After just one year leading her pirate hegemony, Zheng Yi Sao\u00a0had formed one of the largest navies on the planet, with some 17,000 men under her command.<\/strong> Extorted tributes from merchants across the Chinese seas and from the coastal towns between Macau and Canton swelled her treasury to staggering levels, and her power was so great that <strong>she became the de facto government of the region. No longer was she merely a pirate; she was an <em>entire political entity.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LIKE A BOSS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rcmclachlan: homoerotics: bankuei | theworldofchinese The Greatest Pirate Who Ever Lived BY:\u00a0JOE DORAN \uff08\u675c\u4e54\uff09 In 1801, a pirate named Zheng Yi was busy raiding Canton. Aside from the prerequisite plundering and rum-drinking, he had given his men one specific order: to break into a local brothel and bring him the prostitute Zheng Yi Sao (\u90d1\u4e00\u5ac2), &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/20\/rcmclachlan-homoerotics-bankuei\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28995,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28993\/revisions\/28995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}